Making his breakthrough earlier this February was Australian caster, James 'Devmarta' Stewart. Having cast a number of ANZ and APAC games since APAC Pro League began, Devmarta has shot his way into the hearts and minds of many members of the community. Also being one of the hosts for popular ANZ podcast Talking Siege and the Esports Specialist for Ubisoft Australia, Devmarta has seen his share of experience across the community. We sat down with Devmarta on the second day of the Six Invitational 2019 for some insight on his time in Montreal, and APAC as a region.
What has it been like coming all this way to be a desk analyst?
Alongside quite notable names, given your name in your own region, was that an easy thing to come into? Or was it a bit more challenging?
Devmarta on the analyst desk at the Six Invitational 2019, via @mjayx_.
So onto what we’ve seen so far, who has stood out for you as teams? I’m sure you’re going to mention your own region, they’ve been a standout- especially Nora, has been a standout team. Obviously, we’ll touch on Nora, other teams from other regions, anyone stood out for you as well?
The statistics for the matchup between Evil Geniuses and Team Reciprocity from this year’s Six Invitational.
Going away from Invitationals, I wanted to ask what you thought the impact of Kaid and Nomad will be? It’s a bit of a favourite question for us because we want to see where everyone thinks the meta will go.
These comments were made prior to Nomad or Kaid's introduction into the competitive operator pool.
What are your hopes for APAC, as a region? We’ve got the rest of Season 9, and there will presumably be more things to come throughout the rest of the year, what are you hoping to see from your own region?
0RGL3SS with the Oceanic Cup after their victory against Fnatic, via @A1_FEROX.
Same topic, but this is for my own curiosity, Korea at the moment doesn’t have a full eight-team Pro League, thoughts on reasons behind that? Maybe there’s a specific answer, but I’d love to hear a bit more relating to that.
The stage and venue for the South Korean tournament Six Challenge Korea.
If you wanted to dive into your Invitational experience…
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Devmarta hosts the Talking Siege podcast every Tuesday via the Rainbow6ANZ channel. You can check out more of our interviews from the Six Invitational right here at SiegeGG, or watch our interview with Fnatic's Jake ‘Virtue’ Grannan on his experience representing APAC in the year’s first major right here: